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Sep 23

Tennis Divinity, Reconciled with Sporting Mortality

By Sashank Rajaram, UG24 (Guest contributor) It was 2009. There was a huge cheer followed by thunderous applause from my dad. Awoken by...

Sep 15

Stories from the PL: Slumbering Giants Brawl

By Samhith Shankar, UG24 With football in England taking a brief hiatus as the country mourns the death of long-term monarch Queen...

Sep 7

The Sights and Sounds of a Night on Campus

By Aditya Padinjat, UG '24. “Okay guys, come on, time to decide now. Which one?” The question hangs in the air, unresolved, begging for...

Sep 5

Ninety-percent of Students Surveyed Express Concerns with SR Closure

By Anoushka Singh & Vidhi Bhutra TW: Mentions of SH [The area near Gate No.1 was demarcated as a smoking room ever since Ashoka opened...

Sep 2

The trans community and housing: A long and arduous journey

By Sankalp Dasmohapatra As we welcome the first anticipated completely offline undergraduate batch back onto campus it is time we revisit...

Aug 27

Love in the Time of Wordle

By Mohan Rajagopal, UG '24 It was no secret that Palak Shah loved crosswords, spelling bees, and word games. Software engineer Josh...

Aug 24

An Ode to Seb: Vettel's Career in Retrospect

By Amiya Kumar, UG23 A couple of weeks ago as I scrolled through my Instagram feed, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Sebastian...

Aug 24

The New CASH FAQs Bring Out as Many Questions as they Clarify

By Raghav Bansal, UG'24 TW- Mentions of SH Ashoka’s Committee Against Sexual Harassment (CASH) has a document called “FAQs” which acts...

Aug 23

Is the new Draft Constitution a product of the past or future?

By Ruhaan Shah (UG'23) The Student Government has suffered from its own glut of troubles for over two years now. The Sixth House was...

Aug 22

The Constitution Drafting Committee announces final amendments before student voting

By Sankalp Dasmohapatra On the 19th of August, the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) held its third and final open meeting with the...

Aug 22

Our Semester was Delayed (Again): Will Ashoka Break Out of this Pattern?

By Prithaa More and Sana Bashir, UG'24 On July 25th, 2022, a month before students were originally supposed to move back to campus for...

Aug 21

Ashoka’s Bureaucratic Goose Chase: An International Student’s Perspective

By Kshitiz Shah (UG24) My first reaction to the postponement of the monsoon semester was that of panic. I had to grab one of the...

Aug 20

The Ever-Evolving Anatomy of a FIFA Soundtrack

By Aditya Padinjat, UG '24 It is April 16th. It’s 8 in the evening, the sun has set and the football field is lit by passion (and of...

Aug 17

An Insight into the CDC’s Second Open Meeting

By Anirudh S.K., ASP'23 You and I will vote in two weeks on whether to confirm a new Constitution for the Student Government. Have you...

Aug 15

Instability, Administrative Interference, and red-tape: Challenges beleaguering Ashoka’s ministries

By Raunaq Singh Bawa, UG'24 Over the past year, Ashoka’s political climate has been characterised by rampant instability, pervasive...

Aug 14

Faculty Autonomy: The Ashokan Paradox

By Guest Writer Yasashvi Paarakh Faculty autonomy and discretion is an essential component of the Ashokan pedagogy; it is what separates...

Aug 13

TikTok trends and Baking Lessons: What food has meant during Lockdown

By Smriti Nambudiri, ASP'23 From TikTok food trends like dalgona coffee and sourdough-making, to people simply deciding to use the days...

Aug 12

What brews beneath the waves: A dive into Leher’s petition to the VC

By Newsdesk Staff Leher, Ashoka’s newest political party, sent a petition on 1st August to Vice Chancellor Malabika Sarkar demanding...

Aug 8

Chicken Ramen for the Queer Soul

By Kevin Mutta, UG'24 Whenever I went to the mall in Chennai, I’d visit the convenience store on the ground floor— “Tryst Gourmet,” which...

Aug 7

The Green Room: Can Ashokan Theatre Move Past its Tainted Prologue?

By Ragini Bakshi, UG'24 (TW: Mentions of Sexual Harassment, Kirdaar) Amongst emerging Ashokan clubs is “The Green Room,” the new theatre...

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